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FUN FACT: In the last three months of 2025, Australia imported more oil than it ever has in all its history The first quarter of 2026 came third in terms of volume of imported oil www.datawrapper.de/_/3au0M/

I reckon the most successful Hanson pushback focuses on the fact that her offering ("You're allowed to be openly racist to your Indian neighbour now") just isn't true, rather than trying to paint her as a hypocrite on cost of living

weird for MSCI to be all 'you better think about climate change, idiots' when the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board is right now being sued by its beneficiaries for relying on MSCI's ridiculous modeling showing a 4% portfolio loss under the most extreme warming scenario in 2100

The people clapping like seals while three sweating dudes hurriedly drag out its corpse is so perfect up there with this www.youtube.com/shorts/9TIk9...

There is something so compelling and beautiful about robot fail videos

Sarah exemplified our belief that rigorous, creative social science research matters. She undertook that research with incredible flair. To keep her legacy alive, we have created the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship for Energy Research. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.

Something that's hard to swallow is that if the sentence "ALL THIS WAS CAUSED BY FOSSIL FUELS" was spelled out by the flames of this season's wildfires, it still wouldn't really make a huge dent in the widespread complacency and denialism around the need to urgently stop using fossil fuels

about half of centrists and the center-left for some reason concluded that climate change was passe hippie bullshit that doesn't matter, and we're about to learn how wrong that was, the hard way prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

also this article is just...not very good or making any original points? it's another one of these "many sectors use less water than AI therefore environmental concerns are hyperbole," which is just not factually coherent (see: Musk versus Memphis)

I find the prominence of fake, scammy "AI-checkers" so profoundly abusive and exhausting It is a fucking stunning grift: first cause a massive explosion of convincing fabrication, fakery and theft, and then using those same techniques, offer an unreliable tool to detect it. It makes me so angry

Solarpunk mag unpublishing two AI-generated stories. This is the important part: they correctly reject "AI detector" scam programs as part of the same problem www.instagram.com/p/Da3AaTPzk8E/ solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unknowing...

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

me trying to get my brain into gear after a month of not working

“.. The Cybertruck sold one-sixth of Musk's 250,000-unit annual projection and posted the steepest sales decline of any U.S. EV nameplate in 2025.” @yahoofinance.com $TSLA 247wallst.com/investing/20...

The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

next NYT take: we shouldn't worry about floods because the US is on average 2,500 feet above sea level

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.